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#AlNakba1948
Today marks 75th anniversary of Palestinians' displacement!
#AlNakba took place during and shortly after the 1948 Palestine war.
Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist military forces attacked major Palestinian cities and destroyed some 530 villages.
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About 15,000 Palestinians were killed in a series of mass atrocities, including dozens of massacres and around 750,000 Palestinian Arabs or 85% of the total population of the territory Israel captured were expelled from their homes by Israeli forces.
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Today, and for the first time in history, the @UN is officially commemorating #AlNakba the annual Palestinian commemoration of their mass displacement during the establishment of Israeli.
For decades, #AlNakba had not garnered universal international recognition.
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The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom were among 30 countries that voted against the @UN resolution to adopt this year's commemoration.
Israeli officials urged U.N. member states to boycott the event
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The #AlNakba did not end in 1948 but continues to this day in the form of apartheid Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities; theft of Palestinian land for Jewish-Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.
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In 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour writes a letter to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild
The letter known later as the #BalfourDeclaration
In the letter, Britain granted the land of Palestine, which it did not own, to the Zionist movement to establish a National Home
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